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Whitman Archive Title: myself to celebrate
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00787
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: Between 1850 and 1855
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A manuscript containing drafts of lines used in the first poem in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, eventually titled "Song of Myself," including the poem's famous opening line, "I celebrate myself." On the reverse is a prose manuscript (duk.00879) with an unknown connection to Whitman's published work. This manuscript has been bound, seemingly by a collector, with a printer's copy of the 1881–1882 edition of
Leaves of Grass
that contains numerous handwritten corrections by Whitman (duk.00098).
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